1905 AAA Championships

The 1905 AAA Championships was the 1905 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held on Saturday 1 July 1905 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England, in front of 7–8,000 spectators.^[1][2]

1905 AAA Championships
Dates	1 July 1905
Host city	London, England
Venue	Stamford Bridge (stadium)
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	16
← 1904 1906 → AAA Championships

The Championships consisted of 16 events.

Frenchman Gonder won the pole jump event

Results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	John Morton	10.2	James Stark	2½ yd	Harold Watson	½ yd
220 yards	Henry Hyman	22.4	Claude Jupp	6 yd	James Stark	2 yd
440 yards	Wyndham Halswelle	50.8	Georges Malfait	1½-5 yd	Edwin Montague	3 yd
880 yards	Bernard Blunden	2:02.0	Reginald Crabbe	2 yd	David Cowan	5 yd
1 mile	George Butterfield	4:25.2	John McGough	2-6 yd	E. Gardner	1 yd
4 miles	Joseph Smith	21:08.8	Douglas McNicol	21:34.6	H. Hobbs	21:43.0
10 miles	Albert Aldridge	51:49.0	E. Gardner	53:12.2	Joe Deakin	53:44.2
steeplechase	Arthur Russell	11:11.0	Albert Aldridge	10 yd	only 2 finished
120yd hurdles	Robert Stronach	16.8	David Walters	3 yd	Edward Amsler
2 miles walk	George Larner	13:50.0	Robert Wilkinson	140 yd	W. H. Martindale	100 yd
7 miles walk	George Larner	52:34.0	Frederick Thompson	54:29.0	W. H. Martindale	54:47.0
high jump	Con Leahy	1.784	Edward Leader	1.733	only 2 competed
pole jump	Fernand Gonder	3.10	not awarded		only 1 competitor
long jump	Peter O'Connor	7.25	Lionel Cornish	7.10	Hjalmar Mellander	6.60
shot put	Denis Horgan	13.55	Tom Nicolson	12.43	Michael Collins	11.35
hammer throw	Tom Nicolson	47.51	Denis Horgan	40.24	Alf Flaxman	35.46

References

1. "Amateur Athletic Championships". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 3 July 1905. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "The Amateur Championships". Sporting Life. 3 July 1905. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 11 July 2024.